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Monthly Archives: March 2015
The Numbers Racket and Amazon’s Public Domain Problems.
Amazon’s problem with public domain books are overcome by sheer numbers. (Photo: Conor Lawless) You beat Amazon at public domain publishing by having a lot of dogs hunting for you. Recently was in the middle of a test which had … Continue reading
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Solving Competition and Making Profits by Indie Publishing
Competition Can Be Both Good and Bad For Indie Publishing – Particularly With Public Domain Books (photo: Ronel Reyes) Some ebook distributors don’t want you competing with other titles, others encourage it. Amazon and Google seem to be at different … Continue reading
Why It’s Great to Be An Indie Publisher Now – Profit Forever
Why I Love Indie Publishing – Perpetual Passive Income Makes My Day. Oh, that’s right – I already wrote about this… I was reminded when I was looking to see if anyone else had been writing about publishing public domain … Continue reading
Rambling Prose and Lack of Focus Explain Why Tradition Publishing Fails
Traditional publishing Won’t Use the Tools That Make Indie Self-Publishing Work – They Can’t Afford Them. (art: Tobias Mikkelson) Found a great piece with gold nuggets in it. His rambling prose is off-putting (how’s that for a typified descriptive phrase?) … Continue reading
Getting Booksales on Amazon – and Everywhere Else
There are two distinct venues for selling books – Amazon and Everywhere Else. (photo: Nicholas Eckhart) This separation was made clear to me when I worked to publish a large handful of books to Amazon that I’d already published elsewhere. … Continue reading
Getting Your Book Discovered, Finding More Sales, Having More Fun
Writing and publishing Your Book isn’t even half your job – the rest is getting it discovered so it sells and pays you back. (photo: Jayp0d) The third leg of the stool every author sits on is Discovery. (The first … Continue reading
The Espresso Network – the 7th Book Distributor.
Found a new place for Indie Authors to Publish their books – the Espresso Network. (Photo: Illinois.edu) This was an interesting find – and wound up with another way for you to self-publish books. Yes, of course it’s free. The … Continue reading
Getting Your Books Discovered with Social Book Networks.
Social Media and Book Discovery only work when the Search Engines are involved. (Photo: Phil Roeder) While social media/networks are all the buzz about how to promote your book – as usual, the conscious work at ignoring what passes for … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Social media, Twitter
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A New Test of Successful Book Publishing and Marketing – From Scratch
Starting a new and successful book from scratch and marketing it – all as a test and lesson (Photo: Thomas Leuthard) We’re starting a new book, with a supporting book series, and are going to show you from start to … Continue reading
How to Edit a Book Into Shape and Stay Sane
The Route to Producing a Book Requires You Organize to Maintain Your Sanity. (Photo: Matt Elwood) This is always the rub. Editing is what most writers hire out. It’s also known as proofing. But it’s a craft on it’s own, … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, book launch, Calibre (software), E-book, google, iTunes, LibreOffice, lulu, napoleon hill, publishing
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Another distributor for self-published authors – Feedbooks
Found this outlet for new authors (again) – original works can publish on Feedbooks Strictly speaking, it looks like almost anyone can publish there, since I see that there are many public domain books published at various prices. Why don’t … Continue reading
Secret to starting big projects? Finish what you’ve started.
It’s hit me again, just as I predicted: Incomplete (self-publishing) projects will haunt and distract you from anything else you want to start. (Photo credit: unknown…) This includes small projects as well as (and very definitely) any big projects. If … Continue reading
How to Really Profit from Self-Publishing – Follow the Disney Route to Success
Use public domain to inspire your own works – that’s their greatest, and most profitable use. The real reason for works returning to the public domain is to inspire the next generation. The long-dead authors no longer need to profit … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, book, E-book, iTunes, LibreOffice, lulu, Private label rights, public domain, publishing
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When to Cave Over a Fake Copyright Claim
When they have a lawyer and you can’t afford one. (Jurisdictionary – lousy packaging, great course.) Hopefully, you don’t have a lot invested in that book. Might be a crying shame, but get over it. The two questions you have … Continue reading
Is there any Real Money in public domain (self-)publishing?
Why you can make a financially free lifestyle with public domain (self-)publishing, but getting rich (quickly) is elusive. (Photo: Jeneraly) For several years, I’ve been evolving the business plan of re-publishing public domain books as an off-shoot of self-publishing, Recent … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Copyright, E-book, Internet, iTunes, Kobo Inc., lulu, public domain, publishing
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The Great Amazon Suck – Why Other eBook Distributors Don’t
How to Blow-Off Any Chance at a Fan Base. (Cover: Seattle Weekly) [Rant Alert] For all the hype about Amazon, you will seldom see any fan clubs for Amazon or its execs. (Just lots of those “smiley” boxes.) That became … Continue reading
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Perfecting Passive Income Publishing for Profit
How to Make More Than Just a Living With Profitable Passive Income Publishing. (Image: WishIKnew…) It all started out by wanting to learn how to get books I’d written published and making enough to allow me to quit my day … Continue reading
Posted in author, book launch, epub, iTunes, Kobo Inc., LibreOffice, lulu, Market Samurai, public domain, publishing
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How much money can you make in Children’s books?
If your book becomes a bestselling children’s classic and it’s self-published, you can rake it in. (From http://www.slj.com/) Looked around and found this data from School Library Journal. On Lulu: a full-color interior, letter-sized, 32-page book costs $7.57 to create. … Continue reading
“Edward’s First Book” – A Children’s Story About Self-Publishing.
(Just a first draft. Illustrations to follow.) – – – – Edward would wake up at night because of the voices in his head. They weren’t unpleasant voices, but they did want something. They wanted to be heard. Not just … Continue reading
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How to Create or Approve Your Book Cover
Creating or Approving a Book Cover – DIY All books need covers. Actually, this is the biggest introduction to any book these days – people really do “judge a book by its cover.” And if this has enough emotional impact … Continue reading